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TIL that George Washington ordered the entire Continental Army inoculated against smallpox despite popular resistance to the practice

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m1KrE TIL when Great British Bake Off hosts Mel and Sue would see a contestant crying out of frustration or disappointment, they would use their coats to block the person from cameras, or start swearing a lot, so the footage was unusable
Oj0L TIL Google paid a fine of $22.5 million for illegal data collection, $500 million for knowingly allowing fraudulent pharmacies to advertise on their site, and were accused of profiting from women sex trafficking by 38 different anti-trafficking organizations.
neeKY TIL we never see things as they are now, but as they were in the past, the delay is caused by the time it takes light to reach your eyes. We see the Moon as it was approximately 1.3 seconds in the past, the Sun as it was 8 minutes in the past, the Andromeda Galaxy 2.5 million years in the past.
9KpM TIL when the game Twister came out it was accused by its competitors of selling “sex in a box”. The game did not get popular until it was played on The Tonight Show in 1966
wLDXM TIL that since the 1970’s, the NYPL’s Theatre on Film and Tape Archive has preserved live theatrical productions of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions.